LP#1 The Gettysburg Address: Defining Union

Some Southerners, like the now famous South Carolina diarist Mary Boykin Chesnut, acknowledged the increasing dominance of the federal military: after the fall of Atlanta to Sherman’s army in August 1864, Mary Chesnut wrote, “We are going to be wiped off the face of the earth.” ................
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